Shovel for handling coal.



0. G. GOULBT. SHOVEL FORHANDLING GOAL.

' APPLICATION FILED NOV. 3, 190B. 4

Patented Apr. 27, 1909;

OMER c. GOULET, or FALL RIVER,

PATENT nines.

MASSACHUSETTS.

-sHovEL FOR HANDLING- COAL.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OMER citizen of the United States, residing at 355 sborn street, Fall River, in th Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Shovel for Handling Goal, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates more un-consumed coal from beneath the grate of I ashes may be removed rom the mass of cinders or coal without the necessity of sifting, or of picking out the cinders or coalfrom the mass y hand.

While my improved shovel is primarily adapted for the purpose just recited, it is ob-v vious that it may be employed in the shoveling and automatic separation of other material in which larger masses are massed together with finer particles and from which it I is desired to separate the former from the latter. v In the accompanying drawing illustrating my invention, Figure 1 is a plan view thereof," Fig. 2 a view partly in elevation and partly in longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 a cross section on line 4,4 of Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference designate like 1 parts wherever the same occur.

l designates a shovel provided with the. handle 2 of any desired form, that illustrated being the preferred form and being integral i with the body of the shovel, being of rolled metal as shown.

3 is the body portion of the shovel provided with a series of raised or convex ortions 4', preferably arranged in parallelrelation and extending from one side of the shovel to the other, and 5 designates openings or slots cut through the bottom of the shovel and flanking the convex portions 4. The convex portions 4 and the openings 5 may be of any preferred number, according to the size of the body portion of the shovel and arranged in relation-to each preferred manner, although I have found the arrangement shown to be eflicient, and the Specification of LettersI-atent. Application filed November s, 1908.

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portions 4, as will be seen from are of elongated form, their longer, axes being in the same direction as i the body of the shovel, and they have rounded edge portions, whereby smaller particles of the material will not lodge upon their surfaces but will quickly descend between them. These convex portions 4 and the openings 3 are arranged in alternate relation one with the other, as shown, so that the rounded forward end of each convex portion 4'will cause the body of smaller particles in the material, as for instance the finer ashes, to be diverted to each side thereof and into and through the openings 3.

As will be readily understood from the con struction shown in the drawing and heretofore described, the coarser particles of the mass which is being shoveled with my imbe supported by the con vex portions 4 while the powdered or finer particles, such as the ash, can be readily separated from such larger masses by knocking the shovel against the side of the the mass readily falling ings 5.

While I have described my shovel as adapted for the removal of ashes, cinders and 'unconsumed particles of coal the grate of a stove, it will be the same would be shoveling coal from the bin dust could be quickly separated from the lumps of coal by agitating the shovel or jarring the same by knocking when such dust would fall through the openings 4 as heretofore described. The utensil could also be put to various other useful purposes, and in fact to any use where the separation of larger particles of matter from dust or smaller particles with which they are associated, is desired.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. A sifting shovel having the bottom of b ade )ortion formed with a series of longated convexities the greater axes of which extend longitudinally of the shovel blade, and a series of openings ar- E ings the greater axes of which extend longi ranged between said eonyexities and in eltudinally of the shovel blade, and arranged 10 terneit'e fielatiorfi thefewith. between said convexities and in alternate re- 2. A sifting shovel having the bottom of lation therewith.

its blade portion formed with a series of 1 C. GOULET.

rounded elongated'oonvexit'ie's the greater Witnesses: axes of which extend longitudinally of the JA s LITTLE, shovel blade, and a series of elongated'openl JAMES T. CUMMINGS. 

